Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As was pointed out to him in that interview , this year there has been a 7.1 per cent . |
| 2 | Thank you Chairman , I , I , I 'm rather amazed actually , at Colonel 's er , comments because er , in Stratton St Margaret there has been a sixty-one percent increase in crime , and a four and a half percent detection , decrease in the detection and prosecution of crime , and I was absolutely amazed when he come out with the figure that there 's going to be a seven hundred and fifty- three thousand pound shortfall in the police budget , when on the radio , in my car this morning , from a very reputable source of Wiltshire , there was a police officer on there this morning , saying how good they were in producing a freebee newspaper for distribution to every household in the county , to show the police offi , the Chief Constable 's report this year . |
| 3 | ‘ The lessons are available to everyone and there has been a 75 per cent take up , ’ said , marketing services manager and one of the participants . |
| 4 | If that were not enough , there has been a 72 per cent increase in the number of people thrown out of their homes because they could not afford their mortgage repayments . |
| 5 | Will the Minister confirm that since 1979 there has been a 37 per cent . |
| 6 | There has been a 26 per cent . |
| 7 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |
| 8 | I do not doubt the figures and I welcome the fact that , on average , there has been a 33 per cent . |
| 9 | We could then have enjoyed benefits such as those evident in Southend — where there has been a 9 per cent . |
| 10 | There has been a 600 per cent . |
| 11 | Dixon reports : ‘ In the last 12 months , there has been a 30 per cent rise in the number of fans from the younger age group attending our shows . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that under Conservative rule there has been a 30 per cent . |
| 13 | Nationally there has been a 12 per cent drop . |
| 14 | Is the Minister aware that since 1988 in the city of Liverpool there has been a 48 per cent . |
| 15 | There has been a 30–40 per cent reduction in the amount of fat on pigs over the last 10 years , ’ says Professor James . |
| 16 | Since 1961 there has been a 19 per cent decrease in the mortality rates for males aged 65 — 74 . |
| 17 | They include the deregulation of labour markets , where there has been a 29 per cent . |
| 18 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 19 | The Reserve Bank of Fiji said in April 1990 that there had been a 23,000 net fall in the population since the 1987 coup , and that Fiji was now seeking experts from Thailand , China , Sri Lanka , the Philippines and Britain to make up the shortfall in professionals [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 20 | The decline in smoking prevalence and tobacco sales is particularly significant because in March of this year , the Health Department reported that there had been a 14 percent rise in tobacco advertising during 1990 , apparently in anticipation of the advertising ban . |
| 21 | According to preliminary results announced on April 1 , with only two of the 71 constituencies undeclared , there had been a 90.5 per cent turnout of the around 3,400,000 registered electors , of whom 98.93 per cent had voted " yes " . |
| 22 | And there had been a 26 per cent rise in the number of people seeking help in the past five years . |
| 23 | There had been a dozen East European ‘ experts ’ around the breakfast table , advising Maggie on her Polish trip . |
| 24 | But Mr Bowman said Home Office figures showed there had been a 43 per cent reduction in crime by under-14s . |
| 25 | According to the World Meteorological Organization ( WMO ) there had been a 3 per cent decline in the ozone layer , at all except equatorial latitudes , during the last decade . |
| 26 | The hon. Member for Hammersmith , who usually knows better , tried to suggest that there had been a 30 per cent . |
| 27 | In other words between 1974 and 1988 there had been a 25 per cent reduction in the proportionate use of fines and a corresponding 25 per cent increase in the proportionate use of imprisonment . |
| 28 | The move seemed intended to protect domestic supply — there had been a 25 per cent fall in production in the first half of 1991 [ see p. 38492 ] . |
| 29 | Although there had been a 6 per cent swing from ‘ right ’ to ‘ left ’ between the two elections the former were still in a clear majority . |
| 30 | Suggested there 's been a hundred and fifty grand allocated to the factory for er foundations and extension . |